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£1 Iipdepeidiepte
¡Viva Mariachi!
Tucson's Hispanic and non-Hispanic cul-i
tures came together again witty the arrival of the
International Mariachi Conference. This 11th
annual conference was the biggest ever, and
i events were moved to larger venues as "Mariachi
Fever spread.
Fc'lklorico and Mariachi workshops provided
the opportunity for experts and beginners to play
together.
Tucson became the Mariachi capital of the
world when it began hosting the conference,
which draws bands from near and far.
Tucson-born Linda Ronstadt performed dur-ing
the Mariachi Espectacular.
Aportion of the profits from ticket and T-shirt
sales is donated to l.a Frontera.
amily support plus determination
s simple math for UA professor
y BILL MAYTORENA
For South Tucson-bred William
'slas Velez, numbers were more than
ist a student's interest. They were a
ay to make his life add up to success.
'"The thing that you use is the abil-to
think abstractly and to think
profoundly about problems," said Velez,
a professor at the University of
rizona Department of Mathematics.
"That's what mathematics prepares
4uu to do. So it's not so much the
nowledge you have, it's the particular
oint of view you take on as you chal-nge
your mind."
And the solutions he has come up
with have taken him all the way to
Washington, D.C., where this year bets
in charge of half the non-applied math-ematics
budget for the National Science
Foundation. Velez decides on the allo-cation
of about $4 million to university
research programs in algebra and num-ber
theoiy fields.
But Velez had to overcome many
disadvantages. His father died when
Velez was 9, and living conditions
changed in the house, on the corner of
West 34th Street and South Seventh
Avenue, where Velez lived with lits
mother and three siblings.
"We had to rent out most of the
see VELEZ page 3
4poyo más determmacíon es
alnatemática sencilla para maestro
iaducido por ELIZABETH BARKER
eto por BILL MAYTORENA
Para William Yslas Velez, quien se
1rió en Tucson del Sur, los números
eran más que un interts estudiantil.
una forma de obtemer el éxito en
nsida.
il "Lo que usas es la habilidad de
ensar en el abstracto y de pensar
rofundamente en problemas," dijo
Velez, de 47 años, un profesor de
matemáticas en la Universidad de Ai-t-zona.
"Las matemãticas te preparan para
hacer eso. Ast que no es tanto lo que
sabes, es más el punto de vista que
tomas cuando desafias a tu mente."
Ylas soluciones que ha encontrado
lo han llevado hasta Washington, D.C.,
donde este año está a cargo de medio
vea VELEZ página 4
piloto by tinda Tauberl
Las culturas hispanas y no hispanas de
Tucson se unieron otra vez con la llegada de la
International Mariachi Conference. Esta
conferencia fue la más grande que ha habido,
y se movieron los eventos a áreas más grandes.
Sesiones de apredizaje de folklórico y
mariachi dieron la oportunidad a que los
expertos y novicios tocaran junios.
Tucson se hizo la capital mundial del
mariachi ruando empezó a patrocinar la
conferencia, que atrae bandas de todas partes.
Nativa deTucson Linda Ronstadt presentó
durante el Mariachi Espectacular.
Un porcentage de la ganancias de venias
de entradas y camisetas se donaron a La
Frontera.
by J. LUKE HANAGAN
When the ru1 of ti Cslno Ball
unan' waStniyed ln4$flflthat
hit South"rt&csan in Octdber, 1991
the on utyosha cúlturaI tarot
ma.Mnaethan twoyctu iuci
aÇ1Blflatbt of o'er $ 1) (vifi
eftoo'tsetjbItig mut u ru u ru ti u'
ballröifl'
Ed LOe'z, p c',idc'iii tul itOu' I 1(111
°yitieritH SocaJ Ckrb. whirh u ori
the baIlrO*1k a11ite formi-i Lu' U rl
oftrusteádkl riot run the baflroorr
like a busIness, and tht" club ld ti-u
be saved btfore it tuaiS luto late Thr"
ballrOOm is .the frouait of the butti,
ing. 437 F. 26th SI . and the club a
ru back.
'When the roof blewoL the bulk
of the dub's tmwomO stopped and
they (tfre 1rmer boanfl couldn't
mamtabThe flnanres,a .iOpe saId
"They thought all they ha' to do was
buy the beer for the bar mmd things
wotutd be all right, but that i how
this debt got as large as it a now
In th past, the club always had
tot ir balled out by the builirooaru's
profil , Lopr7 said
But now thaI the ballroom s
Diaz chosen to
replace Green in
May elections
by THOMAS BRABENEC
Martin Green has learned you cannot simulta-neously
fight fires and fight for a better city - at least
not officially.
Greenwithdrewfrom the general election because
of a conflict of interest. 'two South Tucson precinct
committees, subsidiaries of the Democratic Party of
Pima County, chose Paul Diaz as his replacement.
Diaz, 47, is an electronics technïcian for Ameri-can
Telephone & Telegraph. Co.
Green won the City Council Democratic primary
in March, receiving more votes than each of the three
incumbent candidates.
Green is a firefighter with the Tucson Fire Depart-ment.
The Tucson city attorney's office told him it was
a conflict of interest to serve asa policy maker for one
govemment while working for another, he said.
So, nine days after the March 9 primary, Green
withdrew faom the May 18 general election.
Diaz's name will be on the general election ballot
alongside Mayor Shirley A. Villegas and Councilman
Peter Tadeo, the two incumbents who also survived
the primary, said City Clerk Dolores Robles.
Incumbent Luis Redondo lost the primaly to Green.
Because no Republicans ran for office, and the
top three vote-getters win, Diaz, Villegas and Tadeo
essentially are the automatic winners of tIme general
election, Robles said. The four council members not
up for re-election are also Democrats.
Diaz is a Nogales, Ariz., native who moved to
Tucson in 1952, and to South Tucson 27 years ago.
Although he has never held political office, Diaz
said he has been active in politics,
"I'd like to ask the City Council to look at the way
we are doing things. Maybe there are different ways of
doing things," he said.
His main concern is bringing jobs to South The»
son.
Green said "I want to thank people for going out
and voting for me. I didn't know it was a conflict of
interest, but I plan to keep on working for South
Tucson. I plan to be around for awhile."
Restoration of El Casino
hinges on debt reduction
out we has r bu'', i' ri, Il 'u 51,1Cl
mflCt*trWjth tu 11.11 1 u'' i
paid off over 1)1 1.10 0 'Ii i lt
u umili iltuuu i uIl1
When Lopez and thea uy scuri
nutmnber hosed took oser opatlomi
of thetgth and baflroot t In Novenl
Item, there was C73 Otií u, bi Io It r'
'-I,uiu", tite riti ii ci t lu' ICI u
"'I he liii tOil ti rei tri-rI', lt t'ri' 1
mules ,iud uoualu ut, r i,jrml litI t i'
\tartlntc luthad l,t t'lt lilt te P10111
hands li us cotild bo'', bi ('t 1101 lull i
militato luvilarepcuolll n
Fttu' balitootsi 0111 mIt rl tuu il) u
arìdbo'u urne aoarorrurl r nl n liii' i lu
thltllurllitltt\ II 10,1, Il tu lui
weddlngs,socaalg titerungsand mutt
certa, MgrUn,zs mill, 11'fCdMSItliim i
I'ecrutterfos'Iheclttl,, saId therewmotr
two.yearwaiung lIsts to book ssu'rl
clings at the ballroom.
"This was the place thai synubol-mied
South Tucson md the I Iospanic
romairnunaty,"M ortuneisaud ltwasa
lm'admtion and everyone bad themr
weddIng at the asino. Belore the
roof cased In we were having thIrd
generation 'Ia'eddthgs here and people
see CASINO page 2
AY SOUTH TUCSONS BILINGUAL NEWSPAPER 1993

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£1 Iipdepeidiepte
¡Viva Mariachi!
Tucson's Hispanic and non-Hispanic cul-i
tures came together again witty the arrival of the
International Mariachi Conference. This 11th
annual conference was the biggest ever, and
i events were moved to larger venues as "Mariachi
Fever spread.
Fc'lklorico and Mariachi workshops provided
the opportunity for experts and beginners to play
together.
Tucson became the Mariachi capital of the
world when it began hosting the conference,
which draws bands from near and far.
Tucson-born Linda Ronstadt performed dur-ing
the Mariachi Espectacular.
Aportion of the profits from ticket and T-shirt
sales is donated to l.a Frontera.
amily support plus determination
s simple math for UA professor
y BILL MAYTORENA
For South Tucson-bred William
'slas Velez, numbers were more than
ist a student's interest. They were a
ay to make his life add up to success.
'"The thing that you use is the abil-to
think abstractly and to think
profoundly about problems," said Velez,
a professor at the University of
rizona Department of Mathematics.
"That's what mathematics prepares
4uu to do. So it's not so much the
nowledge you have, it's the particular
oint of view you take on as you chal-nge
your mind."
And the solutions he has come up
with have taken him all the way to
Washington, D.C., where this year bets
in charge of half the non-applied math-ematics
budget for the National Science
Foundation. Velez decides on the allo-cation
of about $4 million to university
research programs in algebra and num-ber
theoiy fields.
But Velez had to overcome many
disadvantages. His father died when
Velez was 9, and living conditions
changed in the house, on the corner of
West 34th Street and South Seventh
Avenue, where Velez lived with lits
mother and three siblings.
"We had to rent out most of the
see VELEZ page 3
4poyo más determmacíon es
alnatemática sencilla para maestro
iaducido por ELIZABETH BARKER
eto por BILL MAYTORENA
Para William Yslas Velez, quien se
1rió en Tucson del Sur, los números
eran más que un interts estudiantil.
una forma de obtemer el éxito en
nsida.
il "Lo que usas es la habilidad de
ensar en el abstracto y de pensar
rofundamente en problemas," dijo
Velez, de 47 años, un profesor de
matemáticas en la Universidad de Ai-t-zona.
"Las matemãticas te preparan para
hacer eso. Ast que no es tanto lo que
sabes, es más el punto de vista que
tomas cuando desafias a tu mente."
Ylas soluciones que ha encontrado
lo han llevado hasta Washington, D.C.,
donde este año está a cargo de medio
vea VELEZ página 4
piloto by tinda Tauberl
Las culturas hispanas y no hispanas de
Tucson se unieron otra vez con la llegada de la
International Mariachi Conference. Esta
conferencia fue la más grande que ha habido,
y se movieron los eventos a áreas más grandes.
Sesiones de apredizaje de folklórico y
mariachi dieron la oportunidad a que los
expertos y novicios tocaran junios.
Tucson se hizo la capital mundial del
mariachi ruando empezó a patrocinar la
conferencia, que atrae bandas de todas partes.
Nativa deTucson Linda Ronstadt presentó
durante el Mariachi Espectacular.
Un porcentage de la ganancias de venias
de entradas y camisetas se donaron a La
Frontera.
by J. LUKE HANAGAN
When the ru1 of ti Cslno Ball
unan' waStniyed ln4$flflthat
hit South"rt&csan in Octdber, 1991
the on utyosha cúlturaI tarot
ma.Mnaethan twoyctu iuci
aÇ1Blflatbt of o'er $ 1) (vifi
eftoo'tsetjbItig mut u ru u ru ti u'
ballröifl'
Ed LOe'z, p c',idc'iii tul itOu' I 1(111
°yitieritH SocaJ Ckrb. whirh u ori
the baIlrO*1k a11ite formi-i Lu' U rl
oftrusteádkl riot run the baflroorr
like a busIness, and tht" club ld ti-u
be saved btfore it tuaiS luto late Thr"
ballrOOm is .the frouait of the butti,
ing. 437 F. 26th SI . and the club a
ru back.
'When the roof blewoL the bulk
of the dub's tmwomO stopped and
they (tfre 1rmer boanfl couldn't
mamtabThe flnanres,a .iOpe saId
"They thought all they ha' to do was
buy the beer for the bar mmd things
wotutd be all right, but that i how
this debt got as large as it a now
In th past, the club always had
tot ir balled out by the builirooaru's
profil , Lopr7 said
But now thaI the ballroom s
Diaz chosen to
replace Green in
May elections
by THOMAS BRABENEC
Martin Green has learned you cannot simulta-neously
fight fires and fight for a better city - at least
not officially.
Greenwithdrewfrom the general election because
of a conflict of interest. 'two South Tucson precinct
committees, subsidiaries of the Democratic Party of
Pima County, chose Paul Diaz as his replacement.
Diaz, 47, is an electronics technïcian for Ameri-can
Telephone & Telegraph. Co.
Green won the City Council Democratic primary
in March, receiving more votes than each of the three
incumbent candidates.
Green is a firefighter with the Tucson Fire Depart-ment.
The Tucson city attorney's office told him it was
a conflict of interest to serve asa policy maker for one
govemment while working for another, he said.
So, nine days after the March 9 primary, Green
withdrew faom the May 18 general election.
Diaz's name will be on the general election ballot
alongside Mayor Shirley A. Villegas and Councilman
Peter Tadeo, the two incumbents who also survived
the primary, said City Clerk Dolores Robles.
Incumbent Luis Redondo lost the primaly to Green.
Because no Republicans ran for office, and the
top three vote-getters win, Diaz, Villegas and Tadeo
essentially are the automatic winners of tIme general
election, Robles said. The four council members not
up for re-election are also Democrats.
Diaz is a Nogales, Ariz., native who moved to
Tucson in 1952, and to South Tucson 27 years ago.
Although he has never held political office, Diaz
said he has been active in politics,
"I'd like to ask the City Council to look at the way
we are doing things. Maybe there are different ways of
doing things," he said.
His main concern is bringing jobs to South The»
son.
Green said "I want to thank people for going out
and voting for me. I didn't know it was a conflict of
interest, but I plan to keep on working for South
Tucson. I plan to be around for awhile."
Restoration of El Casino
hinges on debt reduction
out we has r bu'', i' ri, Il 'u 51,1Cl
mflCt*trWjth tu 11.11 1 u'' i
paid off over 1)1 1.10 0 'Ii i lt
u umili iltuuu i uIl1
When Lopez and thea uy scuri
nutmnber hosed took oser opatlomi
of thetgth and baflroot t In Novenl
Item, there was C73 Otií u, bi Io It r'
'-I,uiu", tite riti ii ci t lu' ICI u
"'I he liii tOil ti rei tri-rI', lt t'ri' 1
mules ,iud uoualu ut, r i,jrml litI t i'
\tartlntc luthad l,t t'lt lilt te P10111
hands li us cotild bo'', bi ('t 1101 lull i
militato luvilarepcuolll n
Fttu' balitootsi 0111 mIt rl tuu il) u
arìdbo'u urne aoarorrurl r nl n liii' i lu
thltllurllitltt\ II 10,1, Il tu lui
weddlngs,socaalg titerungsand mutt
certa, MgrUn,zs mill, 11'fCdMSItliim i
I'ecrutterfos'Iheclttl,, saId therewmotr
two.yearwaiung lIsts to book ssu'rl
clings at the ballroom.
"This was the place thai synubol-mied
South Tucson md the I Iospanic
romairnunaty,"M ortuneisaud ltwasa
lm'admtion and everyone bad themr
weddIng at the asino. Belore the
roof cased In we were having thIrd
generation 'Ia'eddthgs here and people
see CASINO page 2
AY SOUTH TUCSONS BILINGUAL NEWSPAPER 1993